control (QC). Aluminum, metals and mixed plastics are recovered for recycling by other processors. BHS also supplied the recently launched Total Intelligence Platform, a system that automatically processes information from the controls system and motors, optical and Max-AI equipment, scales, baler and other sensors to provide an easy-to-use information and analytics platform.

rPlanet Earth has previously noted that there is a market demand for RPET if the right quality, price and availability are in place. This facility meets this demand and offers a much-needed domestic processor of U.S. recovered PET. The plant does not sell flake or pellets and instead offers a closed-loop process, taking PET bales and converting them in-house into bottle preforms, extruded sheet and thermoform packaging.

Krones MetaPure technology meets approved scientific guidelinesof the large consumer packaged goods companies and are greenlit by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to produce food and beverage-contact products.

“We really are a technology company,” rPlanet Earth co-CEO Bob Daviduk told Resource Recycling. “We’re going to bring technology to bear to improve the way that post-consumer PET is recycled. We’ll have the lowest carbon footprint of any packaging in the marketplace because of the way we’ve put the plant together.”

“This is a really amazing process and we are honored to have supplied the front-end system for Krones and rPlanet Earth,” said BHS Vice President of Sales & Marketing Rich Reardon. “This system fills the demand for RPET from producers and is also a domestic outlet for our MRF operators – it’s a true win-win. The commitment to technology really led to an impressive, automated and high-performance system and we look forward to working with rPlanet Earth and Krones to ensure their continued long-term success.”

Deliverable Benefit

Thanks to software updates and an intelligent neural network that adapts to ongoing changes in the variables it sees, Max delivers a long-term, “future-proof” solution to quality control and manual tasks.